Wednesday, June 21, 2006
10:29 AM
Presenting to you the script that I wrote for the History Drama Competition. Do note that this thing was written by a bumbling and angsty secondary two schoolboy who had too many ideas to effectively express them out properly. I suspect that most people will not appreciate most of the script's finer details. Heck, in fact, I think apart from the four of us who trashed out the stage directions, about everyone else could catch no ball.
Apart from some punctuation ammendments and spelling corrections, I've left the script almost completely unaltered; rhythmic and rhyming errors, grammatical mistakes, bad expressions and all.
Enjoy:
Once upon a time in the town of Singapore
Raffles made his port of call on her very shore
At that time the police had no officer in charge
So William Farquhar's son in law Francis James Bernard
Took the part time job of magistrate and attendant
Jailer, marine storekeeper and helper to the Resident
The police force then had twelve people in all
"Which is incompetent at catching thieves at all
And even if they catch the thieves" "Yes finally"
"The theieves with a bribe will still go scot-free
Because with a puny eight hundred a month
For me and all those under my command
A nice big bribe from the loot laden thief
For the poor policeman is more lucrative"
Therefore in the year of eighteen nineteen
The streets of Singapore were neither safe nor clean
Raffles thought that Singapore's conditions were ill
So he blamed Farquhar calling him "Imbecile"
Farquhar with a lot of tasks still undone
Had to, for law and order raise more funds
So he legalized opium smoking and gambling
With profits going to the force which was growing
Later in the year of nineteen forty-one
A magistrate was there to get things done
"Under me there was hundred twenty-eight
Loyal men who would anytime come to my aid
But alas even with these big strong men
The bad ways of the criminals I still cannot mend"
In eighteen forty-three by popular demand
Thomas Dunman was the first full-time chief in command
Dunman had difficulties which were immense
"Including a problem in the area of finance
Furthermore my men are overworked and underpaid
Buy luckily efforts to teach them were made
And by reducing the working hours that they had
Their morale was actually not that bad
In eighteen sevent-one due to to much pressure
Thomas Dunman made the decision to retire
As he left the office for the last time as boss
He left behind an efficient and humane police force
Twenty years after Thomas Dunman had retired
"A new uniform for us was created
It consisted of a blue serge coat and cap
And white trousers and black shoes to go with that"
The detective force in eighteen eighty-four
Was built to help uphold the law
And because the Chinese had a very bad experience
"Of corrupt policemen who had the license
To kill and rob and rape and steal
Our family's every single meal"
So not a single policeman
Was a local Chinese man
In eighteen nineteen a policeman must have thought
"These trousers that I wear are really hot
If I wear these trousers too long everyday
I might not get to celebrate Father's Day"
So he got the force to wear white khaki shorts
Which was cooler than the old trousers by lots
And thirteen years after they regained their fertility
In the very fateful year of nineteen o'three
The fingerprint system was introduced
So trouble in identifying thieves was reduced
In the next year of nineteen o'four
Before any Europeans in Singapore
Could even dream of being in the police force
Had to go through a special training course
The course required them to learn the local language
And take competitive exams "Hard as those from Cambridge"
The ISD was formed in nineteen nineteen
To arrest anyone who had even been
Thinking of anti-Singaporean plans
Or setting up chauvinistic communist bands
The marine traffic and communication branch
Was added to the force to add a bigger punch
"By the decade of nineteen thirty thanks to us
And our big police force of two thousand plus
Transformed the originally crime laden land
Into a place under the strong and mighty hand
Of justice to make it a land of peace
So that trading and profits will increase"
In the fateful year of nineteen forty-two
Yamashita wanted to have Singapore to rule
So with a "Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat"
Singapore was attacked by him just like that
But of course he had tens of thousands soldiers on his side
And with that thousands of Singaporeans died
Gen'rel Percieval couldn't take it anymore
So he decided to surrender Singapore
The original police force which had disbanded
In the war had now been restarted
Along with the force came the Kempetai
Whose orders no Singaporeans could defy
These two forces were corrupt and ruthless
And with them there was no justice or fairness
"Because if a bad but very rich man
Who decided that he wants to steal my hen
Will never be charged for theft in court
No matter how much proof I have got
Because if he bribes the judge with money
He will definitely go scot-free
And unluckily for me if I fail
To pay the fines the judge set I will go to jail"
Not only could the police control everyone's money
Their lives were also under their authority
And with the power that the police forces had
They terrorized the streets of Singapore quite bad
They murdered, robbed, killed and shot their very own peers
And that went on for many years
But finally in the year of nineteen forty-five
An atomic bomb hit Hiroshima leaving few alive
The bomb was made to launch by President Truman
"And the explosion was caused by nuclear fission"
"We had expected Japan to surrender
However all they did was to fight on harder
So let's drop another bomb on Nagasaki"
"I knew I shouldn't have studied chemistry"
So with that there was a very big sound "Kaboom"
And everyone in Nagasaki met their doom
So soon the Japanese in Singapore surrendered
And the Singapore Police Force and the Kempetai crumbled
The citizens of Singapore hated the force
And they even deliberately tried to break many laws
Police chief Colonel R.E Foulgar thought that it was bad
So he tried to rebuild the force with all that he had
His efforts were luckily for us a success
And soon the force started to make progress
In nineteen forty-one ten policewomen
Were hired so that in a situation
Involved the arresting of rowdy women
And searching of their bodies in case there's a weapon
No matter how much the women try to protest
They will never shout the very fearful word "Molest"
One year later due to one too many riots
The Riot Squad that suppressed riots were created
And till now it is still here due to all the good it's done
But now it's called the Special Operations Command
"Woof woof woof woof woof woof woof woof woof woof woof woof woof woof woof"
"And that meant the police force did improve
Because in nineteen fifty-five dog units were set up
To help track down everything from criminals to a cub
The dogs helped in almost every single raid
And patrolled around houses though they were not paid"
In nineteen fifty-nine there were eighty officers
Out of which forty-seven were local members
NPCC was formed in nineteen fifty-nine
So students would think that being a policeman is fine
Bartley Secondary School was the pioneer
School that had police protection from the interior
In nineteen sixty-three Malaysie merged with Singapore
The name of the force was thus not the same as before
THe Royal Malaysian Police Force was its new name
And catching spies and saboteurs was its new game
In nineteen sixty-five we separated from Malaysia
And SM Lee even publicly shed a tear
Now its name was Polis Republik Singapura
And the MID controlled it from afar
In nineteen sixty-nine the policement changed their looks
"So that we could impress all including the crooks
The original dark-blue shirt and white khaki shorts
Were replaced with new all light blue uniform that were so hot"
The police force maintained its efficiency
And made Singapore a very safe country
In nineteen eighty-seven Mr Lim Kim San
Took over the MID and all of its fund
He introduced policement into the NS
Which certainly reaped a lot of success
"NPCC" Mr Lim Kim San was to say
"Is to be in every second'ry school as an ECA"
And so this is the brief history
Of the Singapore Police Authority
Now that you you have finished watching our production
We hope that you will look into this baton
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a couple of typos in there.
u still have the original copy of the script dun u?
a couple of typos in there.
u still have the original copy of the script dun u?
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: 6:12 PM
Good job. I prefer this version of Singaporean history - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEyqvZOstII
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